“Paul, there is something very slack about a future that will take a biting satire for a vapid dream.” — R.A. Lafferty Dreams Copy Share Image
“Foreman, you’re the historian,” Thomas said. “It’s tha same damned thing they killed me for the first time, isn’t it?” “Same damned… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Overlark is a brilliant man in the Humanist Tradition." "At the name of which even buzzards gag.” — R.A. Lafferty Buzzards Copy Share Image
“Alaric now at this moment of supreme crisis, coming down to the rough shore and seeing the howling waves, raised his hand… — R.A. Lafferty Goths Copy Share Image
“Olympius, in the name of the Emperor Honorius, ordered the forces in Bologna to take the field against Alaric, on peril of… — R.A. Lafferty Goths Copy Share Image
“And the people had begun to gather, tame people with a new wild look about them. Like wolves they were, and they… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“There was supervised recreation. This is the original contradiction of terms. It was for making suggestions about supervised recreation that the devil… — R.A. Lafferty Contradiction Copy Share Image
“Science Fiction is a collection of guerrilla bands each challenging the rights of the others to belong to the centrality. The band… — R.A. Lafferty Fantasy Copy Share Image
“Dr. Ginochio Gyves would have been the first man on the moon except for a trifling error of navigation. He lands. He… — R.A. Lafferty Moon Copy Share Image
“I know the look of a hunted man, even a defiant one. Surely there are not King’s Men on Astrobe who hunt… — R.A. Lafferty Killers Copy Share Image
“Pottscamp felt nothing; he was, of course, a machine without feeling. He had no conscience or compassion. This would not bother him… — R.A. Lafferty Compassion Copy Share Image
“The New Prophets began to preach by torchlight as though the latter days had come. It was the younger Pliny, those many… — R.A. Lafferty Latter days Copy Share Image
“I know how it was two years ago, Hardcrow. And I know a little about how it is now, though the worst… — R.A. Lafferty Getting better Copy Share Image
“Christopher couldn't recall what day it was; he certainly didn't know what hour it was. It was a gray day, but there… — R.A. Lafferty Death Copy Share Image
“Atrox Fabulinus, the Roman Rabelais, once broke off the account of his hero Raphaelus in the act of opening a giant goose… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“It is said that—Arcadius having offered its weight in gold for the head of Gainas—King Uldin drew out the brains of Gainas… — R.A. Lafferty King Copy Share Image
“You believe, in one of your theories, that we're in control of the world. We aren't. But we have been, and we… — R.A. Lafferty Heaven and earth Copy Share Image
“What about Cathead?” Thomas asked the precis machine. “Cathead is the cancer that is being excised from this world. It is the… — R.A. Lafferty Cancer Copy Share Image
“The Western Empire, supported generation after generation by half a hundred of the strongest and most remarkable men in history, from Stilicho… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Rufinus was an orator and a lawyer, a master of civil administration and agenda. It was because of him that the Eastern… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“There is a secret society of seven men that controls the finances of the world. This is known to everyone but the… — R.A. Lafferty Conspiracies Copy Share Image
“Aye, a man’d be a fool to lose his head twice over the same thing,” Thomas mused, still looking more than half… — R.A. Lafferty Another life Copy Share Image
“Here we come to a semantic difficulty. Other peoples who were of considerable civilization had been referred to as barbarians for more… — R.A. Lafferty Barbarians Copy Share Image
“They were the highly civilized people of Cosmopolis itself. It was a fools’ carnival indeed, all split into high-spirited warring factions spilling… — R.A. Lafferty Thousand years Copy Share Image
“The historian Cassiodorus believed that the selective destruction of Alaric, as regards the Greek monuments, was of good effect. Alaric had some… — R.A. Lafferty Adventure Copy Share Image
“Not for thirty reigns have there been so many grand people in the court at Goslar at one time,” said he. “Strike… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Stilicho first talked of himself; and then of the Empire, which was an extension of himself. He gave it as his studied… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Paul was coursing at fantastic speed towards the area where the little twin stars Rhium and Antirhium revolved around each other. “Hurry,”… — R.A. Lafferty Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Science Fiction is a group of symptoms and not a disease,” so a medical student (failed) told me once. “It's like the… — R.A. Lafferty Doctor Copy Share Image
“After we were men we were tribal gods. We each have our tribe that we sometimes inspire and that we follow with… — R.A. Lafferty Judaism Copy Share Image
“And at almost the identical time two men were murdered. One of them was a Great Liberal Statesman who was actually a… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“This short history should have something to satisfy every taste and perversion: action, treachery, fratricide and regicide, corruption, and bloodshed. It contains… — R.A. Lafferty Betrayal Copy Share Image
“It is a southern river town with some pretensions of being a city... And like every southern river town it has its… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Fortunately—for the purposes of this study but not for those involved, for it was a bloody affair—the battle was fought all over… — R.A. Lafferty Battle Copy Share Image
“I finally saw the whole conspiracy standing as plain as an elephant in the street; also the conspiracy was admitted to me… — R.A. Lafferty Insanity Copy Share Image
“But we are all Goths, for all that, whoever we are; which is to say, Outlanders. And like the Goth Sarus we… — R.A. Lafferty Roman-history Copy Share Image
“The Goths had trained bears and possibly, from one garbled account, trained seals. The dance is something with no survival, lacking verbal… — R.A. Lafferty Goths Copy Share Image
“I say no man ever before slew his friend mouthful of words.” “And I say it has happened many times before. Consider… — R.A. Lafferty Friendship Copy Share Image
“Several bitter contemporary references to the pseudo-Emperor Eugenius had puzzled us. They asked how a man of such an appearance could attempt… — R.A. Lafferty Roman-history Copy Share Image
